From Low Light To Lively Days: Practical Ways To Beat Winter Blues

The shorter days arrive, the duvet clings a little tighter, and motivation slips. We’re tackling winter blues head‑on with a soulful, practical guide to keeping your energy bright, your routines steady, and your home full of warmth. I start by drawing a clear line between everyday winter dips and Seasonal Affective Disorder, sharing the red flags that call for a GP visit and why a diagnosis can be a relief, not a label.

From there we move into the body: why heat escapes through the head, neck, hands, face, and feet, and how smart layering makes a bigger difference than you think. You’ll get a no‑fuss approach to seasonal eating, steaming soups, gentle spices, colourful vegetables, porridge, and vitamin‑rich choices like salmon, eggs, greens, and sweet potato. We talk vitamin D and iron checks, herbal teas that soothe, and simple recipes that turn your kitchen into a cosy refuge without hours of prep.

Your space matters too. Learn easy ways to bring “sun” indoors with warm‑white lighting, music that lifts the room in seconds, bright textiles, and scents that clear the air and calm the nerves. We add movement that anyone can do: 10‑minute walks, indoor walking videos, Zumba in the living room, light boxing, and stretchy resets that release endorphins and beat inertia. To steady the mind, I share journaling prompts, gratitude rituals, paced breathing, crafts like crochet, and small family traditions film nights, board games, disco lights that turn dark evenings into connection.

If the daylight is dim, choose to be the sun in your own life through colour, sound, warmth, and kind routines that add up. Listen now, try one change today, and tell me which habit you’ll start with. If this helped, subscribe, share with a friend who needs it, and leave a review so more people can find their light this season.

Chapters

• 0:00 Setting The Intent And Host Intro
• 1:32 Spotting Winter Blues In Daily Life
• 3:38 Winter Blues Vs Seasonal Affective Disorder
• 6:12 When To Seek Professional Support
• 7:12 Dress Smart: Seal Out The Cold
• 11:23 Eat Warm: Soups, Spices, Vitamins
• 15:50 Sponsor Message And Community Support
• 16:43 Simple Winter Recipes And Colourful Plates
• 19:25 Light, Music, Scents: Bring Sun Indoors
• 23:12 Move Your Body: Indoor-Friendly Exercise
• 27:05 Mind Habits: Journals, Breath, Crafts
• 31:08 Family Rituals, Games, And Dance
• 34:20 Guard Your Senses And Media Diet

Transcript

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Welcome to Authentic Traveling Podcast. This is a sacred space to share soulful truth that nourishes the body, which relates the mind and awakens the spirit as a trapetized human being. I am your host, Abia Sonia Ebenezer Bamamayon. I am a life coach, a counselor, and a speaker who is passionate about personal transformation. I'm also an author of the book Inner Ammonia Resilience Beyond Chronic Stress and Burnout. It is available on Amazon and on my website www.aseconsultancy.com. On this podcast, we hold space for real stories through interview and we have an honest reflection about the journey of our speakers or our guests. We share so for conversation with them in order for us to be able to extract their lessons and how they were able to survive very difficult experiences so that we do not have to reinvent the will, but to learn from them and to grow and rise together. I also share experiences from my own life and also from what is happening in the community so that we can learn and also from a professional perspective. Because striving isn't about just surviving the past, it's about living with courage, gratitude, and harmony for holistic well-being. Thank you for joining me. Welcome back to today's episode. I was having a discussion with some ladies recently, and before you know it, we're discussing the winter blues, and some of them were sharing how they've noticed that their mood is so low, and others were saying that they find out that they are going to the toilets very frequently. They can't seem to hold their water down a lot. And some people thought maybe it's because we are not sweating a lot during the winter time. And some of them were thinking, sharing also how they feel like they've been restricted because right now you cannot you cannot just walk to the park and have a good time. And they find it really, really hard on some days to leave their duvet path with their duvet and get up and just go to work. Others said it is so difficult not to snooze your clock in the morning when your alarm clock goes to find themselves snoozing five minutes, snooze another five minutes, snooze another five minutes until the alarm clock can no longer snooze. Does any of this sound familiar at all? Are you experiencing what we after the winter blues? Are you experiencing? Do you find that your duvet has become your new best friend? You find yourself hugging onto your pillow in the morning and you don't want to leave it. Trying to get the children ready for school has become um a challenge for you because you find out that when you wake them in the morning, they pretend to be awake, do the prayers, and then by the time someone else is doing their shores, or maybe someone is in the bathroom, you find out that one of them or most of them will sneak back to their room, cover themselves with a duvet, and go back to round two of the sleep. And even you, the adult, I am very, very sure you've noticed that your mood is going down, you feel your energy is low, your motivation to do things, even to exercise, especially, is just fading away. You just feel like there's this heaviness that is creeping in. Now, like I said, that's winter blues, isn't it? But there's another type again that is more serious, which we call the seasonal affective disorder. So this is when people feel really, really down, and it is not as a result of maybe um feeling demotivated or anything. No, it's not. This is something deeper, it is actually a clinical depression, a clinical form of depression where people begin to experience depression when the weather is changed. So I just thought I would clarify the differences between them. You know, is it very, very different. It is more serious. It is not only because, oh, we can no longer see lose of sunshine, it is more intense, it is more persistent, it affects the daily functioning of that person's day, and they find themselves they have this persistent low mood. It's not the one that you feel in the morning. You want to hug your pillow, you want to hug your duvet. No, it's absolutely different. This low mood is persistent, lost of interest in the things that they once enjoy. They just have this fatigue and they feel like they just want to sleep and sleep and just stay in their bed, and they don't actually care very much about how their day goes, and sometimes they find it really difficult to concentrate and they withdraw away from others, they just want to be on their own, and they also find themselves craving, especially sugary food or mostly carbohydrate food. Now, this is so different from the winter blues, it is absolutely different. The winter blues is mild, it is not every day you feel like that, it is maybe in the morning you feel like that, and before you know it, once you get yourself dressed in the morning, you are absolutely fine. You may be a little bit sluggish, but it is not every single day, right? That you feel like that. So I just thought I would differentiate the difference between seasonal affective disorder and winter blues. So if you feel like you've been feeling depressed every day for the last two weeks since the the weather has changed, maybe you need to look into that and you just find that that you are finding yourself um you're finding that you want to stay in the bed longer than usual and you don't get tired of your bed. Perhaps you need to see your doctor and let us see if there is something deeper than that. I haven't said that I just want to focus on the winter blues today. I want us to focus on the winter blues because people with um sad, they would need um referral from their doctor to the counselors, and they can have a look at how they can help them better, right? Because those with systemal fed disorder, um, the lack of sunlight, it disrupts their psychian, the psychiatric rhythm, and it lowers their serotonin, which is the you know the hormones that make us um that make us feel good in ourselves, and then it includes increases the melatonin. Melatony is a very very chilled, sleepy kind of hormone thing, right? So it is different. So if you are listening and you recognize any of the symptoms, please please go and see your GP explain and see how they can help you with that. Now, we're gonna sit down with the winter blues. Are you experiencing winter blues? Is your do via your best friend in the morning? Are you getting really cold, especially when you are out there these days? The degree is just dropping the weather degrees, temperature is is is absolutely dropping. Do you find yourself that you get easily cold? Now, let me quickly highlight it. The the part that you get cold easily is your around your neck, your hands, your face, your head, your feet, right? Those are the entrants of cold into our body. So when you are if you are experiencing winter blues or you are not yet experiencing winter blues, do not wait for it. You need to ensure that you are not just observing the weather is changing and you're not doing anything about it. You allow this weather to give you buzz boosts. It is gonna be very dangerous because if you don't look after yourself and dress appropriately, you'll find yourself with you know cold consistently, cold that lingers on, that can sometimes affect your balance because if it affects your ears, it can lead to vertigo where you start seeing things spinning around. This is what the people keep saying that my eyes is spinning, right? Sometimes when cold lingers on for too long, it can trigger your balance in your ear, and you find yourself experiencing that it is very, very bad, it is annoying, it is drainy because you want to stand up and do something, but you just kind of feel like you're going to just fall over, and also, um, you also need to pay attention to your clothing, don't just observe the weather change, and you are not changing your clothing, especially with women. I know we like to dress those summer dresses and those summer clothes, but right now is the best time for you to cover those parts I just mentioned. You need to ensure that you are wearing your gloves, you need to ensure that you get your scarf around your neck, wrap it round to seal the entrance of the code into your body. You need to also make sure if you want to wear especially those that have got bold head, then please. This is the time you cover your head. Um, we can wear a fresh scar, you can wear a hat, whichever one that is comfortable for you, and also make sure you wear warm socks. Now is a good time for you to invest in a terma wear as well. They have term gloves now that keep your hand really, really warm, your fingers warm, and all of that stuff, and your feet warm as well. Um, I've seen jacket as well, term jacket help preserve your body warmth for longer than the normal winter coat. So maybe it's time you also invest in that as well. Now, for ladies who like their fashion like me, and you still want to still wear those dainty things, the best way to go about it is to layer your clothing, wear the temal wear inside, and then you can then layer your clothing bit by bit, and you still look really good. Play with colors as well. The fact that it's winter doesn't mean you should get those brownie um colors out, you can still wear nice and beautiful color. I'm not of the opinion that you should look dull because it's autumn winter, you can still look as bright as the rainbow if you want. You don't have to be everybody's cup of tea, but it will help to brighten your day, okay? To help to brighten your day, and if you choose to wear the the mild colors as well, you can sensorize to bring it out, wear lovely earrings, wear lovely jewelries, you just still bring it out, you still look fashionable. So you see, you don't have to expose yourself and allow yourself to get pneumonia or consistent flow just because you want to be fashionable. So let's be realistic with our dressing, wear layers of clothing, wear something that will keep you warm, cover your fingers, and cover your head, your neck, and just get those beautiful scarves. It is so so important. Now, you also have to eat very nice. When I say change your diet during winter, they are not joking, right? All those having cold drinks, having cold ice, cold um drink, cold wine or whatever you want to drink, cold juice. It's not appropriate during the winter time because once the cold gets into your body, the cold will then start from the inside, and you'll be shivering, you've been shaking like a like a butterfly. So you have to be very careful about what you eat, what you feed your children, no more ice cream at this time. Just put it away and drink something warm. Could um warm tea, hot tea, hot coffee, hot chocolate. If it's the if it's your cup of tea, then that is absolutely fine. This episode is sponsored by ASAP Consultancy, a whole personal transformation for the mind, body, and soul. If you are ready to rise and come out, move away from depression, heal anxiety, make fruit from traumatic emotional pain, and live with confidence in order for you to gain clarity, for you to move from surviving to thriving. Why don't you visit our website www.asebconsultancy.com. We'll support you through counseling, life coaching, and other trauma recovery programs, grief courses, and it will even offer one at a time therapy. All of these services is available virtually, so you do not even have any excuse of saying you do not want to leave your home. You have everything from the comfort of your home will support you to move from surviving to thriving. Before you go, have you subscribed yet? Like, share, and comment on what resonates with you so far on this episode. If you have not done so, why don't you just click that button now? Thank you. Back to the program now. Another diet that is preferred at this time is your soup, your winter soup, right? It might be pepper soup, like the way we like it in Africa. It might be your um a furrero soup, make it a little bit spicy if you like your spices. I find out that when it's cold, I like a little bit more spicy. My food, it helps to keep me warm in the inside. So I have some spicy food, and then you can have some lovely porridge. Porridge is really good during the winter time. It's not like it's not good every other season, but a bit of porridge, something that has a bit of soup with it, is really nice. Now, if you want to do the western soup, it's pretty easy. Just cut your vegetables, add a bit of water, add potato, all pasta, your vegetables, you know, carrots, um, sweet corn, and any other vegetables that that that that you fancy, just add it to it, add water, add a bit of pepper to it, add a bit of pepper to everything during the winter time. It just helps to keep me warm. Now, make sure you fill your colour with your plate with colors, add colors to it, add those um sweet, lovely, sweet cones to your rice, add a bit of cara to it, had a bit of the green spinach, a bit of oogle, red pepper, yellow pepper, green pepper, just add it to your dish, it makes it look so bright and beautiful, and also you get your vitamin is locked in. One thing I've noticed is that during the winter season, I tend to go low on my vitamin D. I don't know about your vitamin D, you will get it mostly from the sun. So, when the sun is going down, what do you expect? Your vitamin level is gonna go down. So, if you don't want to go and be taking supplement like I do sometimes, I don't actually get it a lot now because if you are lacking or you are low on vitamin D, you get lighted very easily, especially in the morning. So, if you notice that go and see your GPA, let it do your full blood count to ensure that you are not low on your energy level on your on the setting vitamin in your body, especially vitamin D or your iron level has not dropped. If any of them are dropped for me, I do get very lightheaded quite easily. Um, you can also incorporate some some vegetables that are high in vitamin D and in iron as well. So the green plantain is very good, spinach, ougu, they are very good. Um, salmo, egg, fortified cereal, like brown flazer is already fortified with iron, brown bread or 50-50 bread is also good as well. And if you are not one to drink coffee like me, uh you're not a big milk drinker, so you don't want to drink milk. Herbal tea is so good at the season. The lemon one, some of them the orange, raspberry, or the um the berry ones, raspberry, strawberry, they're just together and it's so so rejuvenating, or maybe lemo and peppermint, or the chameline, chamomile um tea as well. They help to soothe your nervous system and just help to relax you on a day where you are frostbite from work because it's so so cold, or your feet is really cold as well. Other type of food that is really good and it's got good vitamins in it, high specific vitamins that will nourish your body this winter season is the root is a sweet potato, they are really good. You can have it roasted, you can have it boiled, you can have it grilled. Avocado is another one, it's really really good. If you also like the chickpeas, you can also have it. But chickpea is not really my cup of tea. But if it is your cup of tea, um, it's really good, it helps to keep you warm as well. If you like the tomato soup, now it's a good time for you to also drink it. So anything soupy that will help you to stay warm, it is good. This is not the time you treat your children to ice cream. Remember, when they get cold, you are the one that will have to take them off work to stay with them. So let's be mindful of that. It's so so important that you eat according to your season. Now, season I mean the weather, okay? Another thing that people that make people have winter blues is that you know there is shorter daytime and longer night time, so it gets dark really easily because very soon, precisely October 26th, so Saturday 20, October 25th, to basically the last Saturday, um, last Sunday of October, about 2 a.m. in the morning, the time will just change, and then it goes backward, time will go backward. Remember, it's the springtime is spring forward, so time will go backward one hour, and then you begin to see that it will be six o'clock, it looks so dark, and you'll be wondering what's going on. So we have differences in the sunlight when the sunlight fades out really, really fast. So it is good for you to bring the sun into your home. How can you do this? You can ensure that you have really good um cuttings in your home, in your lounge, anywhere that you're supposed to have curtains or blinds as well, have good blinds in your home as well that you can just easily open and get a bit of light. I know they said keep it closed so that the warmth from your home would not just disappear. So it's better to keep the maybe the blind a little bit agar, keep your curtain fresh and clean, and also you can use those warm white bulbs. Um, they're really good, or the the the ones in the lamp as well, and also you can also change your bedding and make it a little bit bright, get the bright colors, so bring a bit of sunshine into your into your home or into your bedroom, and then another thing you can do is to play good music in your home, such that for those of you that have got Alessa, have a good playlist so that as you're walking and say, Alessa, play me, my favorite playlist, and Alessa will just start Hey, come on, Harrika, hey, then you can just start dancing immediately. You get home. But if you don't have Alessa like me, immediately you get home, put the music on, and just begin to have that upbeat music, worship music, and things like that. It just makes it as if the sun is not in your home. And another one, my husband absolutely loves this one is the candles. He loves a scented candles, those beautiful aromas fill your home with beautiful aroma. Winter time is also a great time to you know. Let me go back to that candle. They have some beautiful ones, like it's like you're baking in your home, or you can have the citrusy one, or you can have the cinema one. It's really beautiful. There's this aroma it just gives in your in your home, and then the warmth from the candle as well, so it makes it um, or those essential oil. If you've got essential oil as well, and you want to steam your room, then you can just drop it in the steamer, the essential oil with a bit of um flavor in it, just drop it in it, and plug the steamer. The steamer will steam your room. So if you know your always have a gold, that can help as well. Before you go to bed, plug the steamer on, drop a bit of uh ointment in the steamer, it will steam your room, and then it's going to fill your room with those minty ointments, so the minty ointment as well with essential oils, it will fill your room up, and it will be easier for you to breathe if you're always having cold during the winter season. It's also very important to declutter your home. I know it's so difficult when you've got children, or just like buying things, you have clutters here and there. So try and declutter over so that you don't have um dust in your home that just stay there, it also helps to lighten the energy flow in your home as well. So those days are really nice. You know, you if you want to change your your your pillow as well, or maybe you know, those colors get some flowers in your home that will help to brighten it up, it changes a lot. You're bringing the sunshine, and those things can make a whole lot of difference. So even though it's dark outside, then your home is not as dark. Your home becomes bright with good music, with good and warm lighting, with smelling um beautiful aroma. If you're also good at baking, now is the time for you to bake the bread, the scones, the cakes, what does it do? It fills your home with the aroma and also the heat from the oven as well. It helps to keep your home warm. And yes, I know it's expensive to be baking during winter, but the benefit outweighs um the cost. So if you want to do that, that's something else to help to keep the winter winter blues at bay. There's something else that you can do aside bringing the sunshine into your room, making sure you eat healthy, making sure you also wear the appropriate clothing. Now, the fourth thing that you can do is to ensure that you are active. Yes, you heard me right. Exercise, move your body. Do not just stay in one place. Once you come back, the only time you move is when you're going to work, and the only time you you move is when you are alighting from your transmitts of transport, and other time you are very sedentary, you're just sitting in one place, you get back from work, you're sitting in one place. The only time again you stand up is when you go and use the toilet, or maybe when you're cooking. Try and move, move your body. It is very, very important to move your body, it's good for your mental and emotional well-being, it's good for your physical well-being. Movement is medicine, just like laughter is medicine. Movement helps to release endophines in your heart, and help to act as your natural brain antidepressants. So you don't need antidepressants if you are moving, so even for 10 minutes a day, you can go out for a walk. Now, if this is not possible, you don't like going out because it's too cold. There are so many activities on on um YouTube, walking activities. There was one I recently um created is the prayer walk. So as you're walking around for that 10 minutes, you can also pray as you're walking around, pray for your neighborhood, pray for your family, pray for yourself, pray for the weather to be great on all of us, and just pray. There's no such thing as too much prayer. Walk around and use one stone to kill two beds, right? That's a great idea. So walk around and also I have this boxing glove that I use, so sometimes just get your children to hold it or your spouse and try and box with the gloves, it's also good as well, right? You can do some exercise at home. Like I said, YouTube is your best friend, they have loads of exercise videos that do not require any equipment that can help you. So that's good. If you are into gardening, you can't make sure you have the right gloves. You can garden your little pot outside in your little space and have the children play outside for a few minutes if you can't, especially if you've got a park near you. Let them just run around, or maybe in your garden, let them run around a little bit. It's also good. Now, if you know the outdoor is not your thing, I've got you covered. Why don't you get this lovely Zumba? They have this beautiful Afro Zumba dancing stuff or um exercise thing on YouTube. Just go, just go. Hey, come on, you can dance at the comfort in the comfort of your home, right? Put the Zumba music on and just follow their step. They're actually pretty easy to do, just dance and follow their step. It is so so good. You can try to learn how to stretch your body in a clean way, just move your body clean without hurting yourself. Make sure you do it where there are so many activities that can be done indoor in your garden. You can skip if you know you're not good at skipping, dancing, work. There's another indoor walking video on YouTube. I think there's a couple of them out there. You can try that as well. It is so so beautiful. Movement does not require outdoor always, right? It can also be done indoor, so let there not be any excuse at all. And let's get rid of winter blues. Now, the fifth one is the mind. Remember, people experience low mood, their mind is thinking of different things, or like summer, where you can do some barbecue, you can go to the beach, you can have a little girl together with your friends. Winter, nobody wants to near the beach, it's too cold. So, winter is all about slowing down and just staying, you can get into creativity right now. The creative things that can stimulate those dopamine in your body include journaling. So when you're about to sleep, just get your journal out, write about your day, rupee a bit of sunshine into your day, reflect on the people that helped you, reflect on the people that you helped, on how you made a positive difference in your life and in orders around you. It's beautiful, and at the end, you can also do your gratitude as well. Write three days that you are grateful for, recognize three people you are grateful for, three days in your day that you are so grateful for. Write it in your journal. The days that you may not be able to write, read your journal, and you'll be like, Oh wow, even though it's been really slow, but lots of good things have happened to me this season. So you be it helps to juggle your memory and bring you back to yourself. You can also practice um breathing as well. I tend to do that in the morning a lot, just take a deep breath in, doing a sequence of four, suck it in four, and then pause for four seconds, and then release it gradually through your mouth. So you can just do that. Let's try it together. Take a deep breath in. So what I did, I suck it in one, two, three, four. I paused for four seconds, I can four in my head, one, two, three, four, and then I release that four again. One, two, three, four. Let's do it again. Just breathe. It helps to ground you, it helps to stabilize you, it helps you to feel good as well. Now, another one thing that you can do is if you're good at crochet, just try and crochet, get your equipment out. Instead of just sitting there in a lounge and watching movie, get your crochet needle out, get your wool, and just crochet, maybe a scarf or heart or a purse or anything dainty, dainty. It's not it's not a major, just be creative with yourself. You can also read uplifting books, you know, those books that also you can't wait until you get to the next episode, the next chapter. I mean, you're like, Oh, what happened next? What happened next? Those books that you grab and you don't want to put it down. That's also good again. You bring a bit of sunshine into your creative world, it's so beautiful. You can also have family fortnight. So, in my home, we have on Fridays, on Saturdays, we have the family movie night whereby we pick a film. And then we have maybe pizza, or maybe we just have something roasted chicken and just have something like niebles here and there, and then we'll pick a film. When we finish watching that film, we'll talk about it. The children, what did you learn from it? You know, and what we learned from we just basically discuss it, and it is so nice because when it's winter time, everybody tends to just want to do their own thing, everybody just wants to just go and sit down on their own. So when you do the moving and you bring everybody together deliberately, on that beautiful one, is playing game game night where you get your Ludo out, your Conet 4, your Jenga. If you've got this um African seed, call it we'll call it a guru in Vini. So I don't know what you call it. You just get it out and play it or teach the children how to play it, Uno and all those things. It is so good. Um, it just helps to bring everybody together and get everybody together. You can also get um try a music selection whereby everybody just has a disco night. One of the ladies I was talking to talk about this, she has a disco light that she just stick somewhere in the house, and as the music is going, the disco bob is going round and round, it's changing colors. She said her children absolutely love it. So you can get other one from Amazon and just let the disco light put the music on. Everybody's having a disco night, we're having a disco night, maybe weekend and things like that. It helps to just bring everybody together and get the family talking, and even if you're on your own, dance until you're sweating and you just start laughing at yourself. These are some of the things that I find really, really great in doing, and it helps to keep the winter blues at bay. Me, I don't like to be unhappy, I don't like to be sad. I like my energy level to be pure, I like my energy level to be beautiful, to be high, to be positive. So for anybody that is experiencing winter blues, I send you peace, I send you love, I send you light. I've gone through different things, creativity, be mindful of the things that you're thinking about. Before you dwell on the thought, I want you to use Philippians 8 verse. Philippians 4, verse 8 to 9. Is the thought, is it pure? Is the thought is it true? Is the thought is it praiseworthy? Is the thought is it excellent? Think about it. Put all your thoughts through that, and you find out that when you start challenging your thoughts, you will not have those invasive, intrusive thoughts that lead you to rumination. You find yourself, you'll be able to come back to yourself in not just time. Journal is another one again when you journal your thoughts down and then begin to ask questions about those thoughts, you find out that you can easily get yourself out of the rot, even before it starts, rather than going into a sparrow of very dark place, right? So make sure you dress appropriately, make sure you change your food and eat healthy and warm. Make sure also you ensure that you exercise yourself. It is very, very important that you exercise and make sure that you bring some sunshine into your home through music, through the smell and the aroma, through what you see. Because our gatekeepers, what we see, is it beautiful? Is it is it is it is it okay? Is it bright? What we smell in our home, the music that we hear, turn away the news. Sometimes they are just so negative, very minimum, right? So you don't get other people's negative vibes into your home. I want to thank you for joining me today. Remember, it is time for you to nourish yourself. If the daylight is dark, you can choose to be the sunshine in your own life and be the sunshine in the life of every other person through your sound, through your color, your dressing, your environment, through your movement, and through the love that you share. As you move through this season, may your home stay bright, may your meals be vibrant, may your hearts be hopeful, may your inner light be unshakable, and may you continue to be the light wherever you go and the sort of the earth and be a flavor to everyone you meet and to yourself. Thank you for joining me today. I hope this episode helps you to manage and eliminate winter blues from your life. I remain your host, Abia Sonia, until I see you again. Take care of yourself and God bless.